Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1887-12-31
DEATH IN THE WATER.
Is THE ELEMENT WE DRINK
DECIMATING THE PEOPLE,
How . Univcrsal Menace 70 Hoalth
May De Dt.ar ncd.

hIcW years ago tiie peOplc III u ecI taiu
section in one OF the leading cities OF the
State were Frustrated with malignant
disease, and upon investigation it was
lound that only those who used water
from famous old well were the victims,
Professor s. A. baltimore, analyst Of
the New York State Board OF Health,
upon analyzing water froa this we'll.
iound it more deadly than the city
ewa2el
The hlling up OF the old well stopped
The ravages of tho disease.
! Not long since the writer noticed while
some men were making an excavation
for large building, stratum of dark
colored earth running from near tho
surface to hard pan. There 1t took an
other course toward "A well near at hand.
The water from this we'll had for years
been tainted with the DRAWINGS from a
receiving vault, tire percolations OF which
had discolored the earth .-,.. -.
Terrible
A similar condition of things exists in
every village and city where well water
is used, and though the filtering which
the fluids receive in passing through the
earth may give them clear appearance,
yet the poison and disease remains,
though the water may look never 30
clear.
1t is still worse with the farmer, for
the drainage from the harn-yard and the
slops from the kitchen eventually find
their way into the family we'll
The same condition Of things exists In
our large cities, whose water supplies are
rivers fed by little streams that carry OH
the filth and drainage from houses. This
"water" is eventually drunk by rich and
poor alike with great evil.
Some cautious people resort TO the filter
for purifying this water, but even tho
filter does not remove this poison, for
water Of the most deadly character may
pass through this filter and become clear,
yet the poison disguised is there.
They who use filters know that they
must be renewed at regular periods, for
even though they do not take out all the
impurity, they soon become foul.
Now In like manner the human kid
neys act as filter for the blood, and II
they are filled mp with impurities and
become foul, like the filter, all the blood
in tho system coursing through them be-
comes bad. for II Ia now a conceded fact
that the kidneys are tho chief means
whereby the blood Is purified. These
organs are filed with thousands OF hair
HE tubes which drain the impurities
from the blood, as the sewer pipes drain
Impurities from our houses.
II a sewer pipe breaks under the house,
the sewage escapes into the earth and
Ellis the house with poisonous gas SO II
any of the thousand and one little hair
like sewer tubes Of the kidneys break
down. the entire body IL affected by this
awful poison.
II is scientific fact that the kidneys
have few nerves of sensation; and, con-
sequently, disease may exist in these
organs for long time and not be sus-
pected by the individual 1t is impossi-
BILE TO filter or take the death out of the
blood when the least arrangement exists
in those organs, and il tho blood is not
filtered then the uric acid, or kidney
poison, removable only by Warmers safe
cure, accumulates in the system and at
tacks any organ, producing nine out OF
ten ailments, just as sewer gas and bad
drainage produce so many fatal disorders.
Kidney disease may be known to exist
II there is any marked departure from
ordinary health without apparent known
cause, and ii should be understood by all
that the greatest peril exists, and Is in
tensiicd, ii there Is the least neglect to
treat it promptly with that great specific,
Warmers safe cure, n remedy that has
received the highest recognition by
scientific men who have thoroughly In
vtstgated the character OF kidney de-
rangements.
They may not tell us that the cause OF
80 many diseases In this organ Is the i'm
pure water or any other one thing, but
this poisonous water with its impurities
coursng constantly through these deli
cate organs undoubtedly does produce
much OF the decay and disease which
eventually terminate in the fatal Bright's
disease, for this disease, alike among the
drinking men, prohibitionists, the to-
bacco slave, the laborer, the merchant
and tue tramp, works terrible devasta-
ton every year.
II Is we'll known that the liver which
Is so easily thrown "out OF gear" as they
say, very readily disturbs the action of
the kidneys. That organ when deranged,
immsdiately announces the fact by sal
low skin, constipated bowels, coated
tongue, and headaches, but the kidney
when diseased, struggles on for long
time, and the fact of its disease can only
be discovered by the aid of the micros-
cope or by the physician who is skillful
enough to trace the most indirect effects
in the system TO the arrangement Of
these organs, us the prime cause.
The public is learning much on this
subject and when it comes to under
stand that the kidneys are the real health
regulators, as they are the real blooi
purifiers OF the system, they will escape
nm infinite amount OF unnecessary suf-
fering, and add length Of days and happi-
nees 10 their lot.